SI senior writer Tom Verducci reports, "Major League Baseball players were willing to forego their right to file a grievance against the owners to play a 70-game schedule, but not 60 games." The right to a grievance was imperative to the players. To the point that they were willing to forego extra benefits that were on the table in the owners' last 60-game proposal.
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00:00 Major League Baseball players were willing to forego their right to file a grievance
00:11 against the owners to play a 70 game schedule, but not 60 games.
00:16 That 10 game difference is at the heart of the matter of why when and if we have a baseball
00:20 season it will be without an agreement between the players and the owners.
00:25 The right to a grievance is so important to the players that they were willing to forego
00:30 extra benefits that were on the table in the owners last 60 game proposal.
00:36 Those benefits included $25 million in postseason money, $33 million in money to lower salaried
00:43 players that would be forgiven as part of advance money sent earlier this year, and
00:48 an expanded postseason.
00:51 Every player wants a chance at a World Series ring.
00:55 Without an agreement, 156 fewer players will get that opportunity now that the postseason
01:03 looks like it will remain at 10 teams rather than 16 teams.
01:07 It tells you how important that grievance is to the players, and it tells you that the
01:12 players are playing the long game.
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